Diary of Hester Lynch Piozzi, April 1801

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M^r Piozzi is very angry with me when I say I remember old Leveridge the Tenor or perhaps Bass Singer of ancient Days—It makes him quite mad to think I acknowledge a lapse of so many Years; yet that I do remember the Man is a Fact.  Why good Heav’n! says my Master—That Man’s Name is in the Spectator; & so it is, 7^th Vol N^o 541 the Date 1712.  A Young Singer then most likely; & I was at his Benefit when a very old one.  The Audience insisted on an old Air being performed of which I recollect both Words & Music—it was twice Encored, and my Uncle who took Care of me, sayd Leveridge was fourscore years old then—I was seven perhaps—Sir D’anvers Osborne & Sir Tho^s Salusbury had me in charge I know, & we sate in the Pit: My Mother was w^th Lady Frances Burgoyne in the Front Box.

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